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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Martha Coakley, BFF
Imagine my delight when I received an email from Facebook with the subject line, “Martha Coakley suggested you become a fan of Martha Coakley . . . ” Of course she did. Then imagine my delight when I received the … Continue reading
Yes We Won’t
Interesting piece in Saturday’s New York Times about the raging healthcare debate and Barack Obama’s notroots. As the health care debate intensifies, the president is turning to his grass-roots network — the 13 million members of Organizing for America — … Continue reading
Julie & Julia & James
Mad props to Boston Herald film critic James Verniere, whose rave review of “Julie & Julia” topped the blurbs in a full-page ad for the movie in Saturday’s New York Times. According to Verniere, “‘Julie & Julia’ is the summer’s … Continue reading
Les Paul, RIP
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I heard a lot of the great Les Paul on WNEW’s Milkman’s Matinee and Make Believe Ballroom. He – and wife Mary Ford – were fabulous. Two things that stand … Continue reading
Cairo Nazi Nailed
On Friday, The New York Times reported this about Nazi doctor Aribert Ferdinand Heim, who apparently lived in Egypt for 30 years after he fled German police intent upon arresting him in 1963: The German police confirmed Thursday that a … Continue reading
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It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Finally got around to reading “The Cocktail Renaissance” by Robert Messenger in the August 3rd edition of The Weekly Standard. It’s a little arcane for me – witness this bit of business early on in the piece: We’ve forgotten where … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends II
Two eye-catching ads from Wednesday’s Boston Globe Metro section: Chiquita To Go A half-peeled, half-phallic banana stands, well, up under the headline, “Cool Yellow Carrying Case Included.” The, er, body copy calls it, “The original energy bar, packed with nutrients … Continue reading
Were That It Was “Were”
I’m as clueless as the next guy about the use of “were” with the subjunctive mood (assuming the next guy isn’t Strunk & White), but these two examples from Michiko Kakutani’s review of The Battle for America 2008 by Dan … Continue reading
Nesson Lesson
Charles Nesson, lionized local lawyer and co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got his clock cleaned on Page One of the New York Times Tuesday. And the piece – about Nesson’s hapless defense of illegal-music-downloading Boston University … Continue reading
In the Tank?
Tank McNamara is a sporadically amusing comic strip that runs in the sports sections of roughly 300 newspapers, including the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. Except not so much in the Post on Monday, as the paper’s comics blog … Continue reading
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